this is a fox news alert and we are waiting for a news conference in the case of the missing yale graduate student. annie lee, who was set to be married tomorrow. police say lee was last seen this past tuesday. as we said, that wedding was to be held and the family has called off the we hadding we had we're about to get an update on exactly what happened to annie lee. >> security records show thattany lee did swipe her identification card on tuesday, but there is no record of her

leaving. even though there are about 75 security cameras monitoring that complex on the yale complex. >> david miller has the latest. he's been following the story from new york. david, this is not good news, we're going to hear in a couple minute, is it? >> i don't think it is. tomorrow was supposed to be her wedding. it looks like her family will be plan ago funeral. we are getting word from our affiliate in connecticut that, in fact, a body has been found in the building where annie lee was last seen alive. there are also reports that we have not been able to independently confirm from other media that bloody clothing has been found in the building. clothing that might have been concealed in part of a ceiling. what we can tell you is that this story has con founded so many people because at 10:00 a.m. tuesday, annie lee was caught on videotape as she entered this yale university

medical lab, a pharmacology lab. >> they have scoured the frame, hour by hour and she's not scene leaving that building anywhere on the tape. authorities feared and believed that she might possibly still be inside the building. they brought in sniffer dogs dod had blueprints to help them in their massive search and now we are getting word that, in fact, it does appear that a body has been found inside the lab where annie lee was last seen alive. i just caution that fox news channel has not been able to independently verify this, but it is consistent, rick, with all the other reports that we heard, including one that indicated that the possible motive here might have been a robbery. this particular lab, we are told, contained a great deal of expensive equipment. rick. >> david, i know that earlier today there was somebody seen going away with the police, being taken away in an unmarked

police car. do we have any idea who that person was or why police might have wanted to talk to them? >> curious incident. sometime today, a man outside the lab was seen talking to investigators. this individual got inside the police car, an f.b.i. agent, according to wire service reports, got in the back seat and then this individual was driven away. the authorities will not say whether he is a suspect or a witness, but it's just another added mystery to events of the last few days. i should add we do expect to learn a great deal more, i would say in about 28 minutes or so when authorities in connecticut do hold a news conference and at that time, it is very likely we will learn specifically about the fate of annie lee. rick? >> attention of course, we'll bring you that press conference when it begins. thank you so much. >> also in the news, tens of thousands of tea party protesters packing the national

mall in washington. the tea party express ending its tour today in the capitol and several other cities. they're fed up with the government that's grown too fat, too big and too out of touch. take a look. some demonstrators even brought their own port a potty. emblazened with the names of people who are washington's biggest spend, they say. molly, what happened today? >> hey, anesy. it's wrapping up here after this taxpayer march on washington. it began early this morning where members of the tea party express and others gathered kind of near the white house and they marched down pennsylvania avenue to this, the grounds of the capitol where they heard from speakers and musicians and they held up their signs and made their voices known. now they're going back to their own homes. many, many buses came here and eventually they'll have to head back home. they came from all over the country. >> what is their message today, molly?

>> yeah. these were fiscally conservative americans. they wanted to deliver their message to lawmakers in person and say they're fed up with government spending, fed up with the growth of government and fed up with increasing deficit. take a listen to what assume of them had to say today. >> we want them to stop spending, stop taxing us, stop the health care bill because you're bankrupting american force generations to come. >> these people are informed and they're outraged about the spending, the debt, the government takeovers, the taxes. it's not just the last six months. it's the last ten years. i tell you, i've never been more proud to be an american. >> that was senator of south carolina. he was the only senator to speak today. there were other members from the house of representatives who also addressed the crowd. >> i know the president was not in town, was that a coincidence?

>> well, he did have a rare sunday rally in minnesota and the crowd here was well aware of that. a couple speakers got up and said president obama isn't in town, let's make sure he can hear us all the way in minnesota and that got the crowd fired up to yell louder. people here who attended this event say they think the president and lawmakers here at the capitol will get their message about spending. that's what they're hoping. >> regardless, i'm sure he'll hear their message loud and clear. >> as molly just said, the president not in town for that march on washington. instead, he was in minnesota pitching his plan to overhaul the nation's health care system to folks at a town hall meeting. mike emmanuel with the details. >> president obama brought a new message with him to a rare saturday event selling health care reform. the president's rally was in minneapolis, the site of the 2008 republican convention, a swing state with a governor who may challenge him in 2012. his new pitch for health care is base road treasury department study that says 48% of all people under age 65 will go

without health coverage at some point in a ten-year period. the president telling americans, you or someone you love could easily become the uninsured. >> more than one third will go without coverage for longer than one year. we got to do something. we've got to do something because it can happen to anyone. >> reporter: republicans say the president has rejected ideas that would bring people together around overhauling the system and has ignored the people's wishes. here in minneapolis admission was free and many in the estimated audience of 15,000 said they were supporters of fixing the health care system, but wanted more details from president obama. >> i do need to hear how it's going to work, the budget, and whether or not it will increase the deficit. >> i'm very concerned about where our country is going, it's very expensive and limiting our ability to hire people. >> reporter: in an interview to

air sunday night, president obama says he will be held responsible for any problems with health care reform, so he has every incentive to get it right. rick, back to you. >> mike, thank you so much. joining us now, republican john campbell, congressman from california, and democrat elliott engle of new york. thank you both. good to see you. congressman engle, this has been a very big week when it comes to health care reform. the leaders of your party sound confident they'll get a deal done before the end of the year. is this going to be a bill that gets one single republican vote, do you think? >> i don't know. it's not looking like it in the house, anyway, which is too bad because i believe in bipartisanship. but i think the president is right, we need to get health care done. we need to insure that every american has coverage and even people that have coverage today are going to lose their coverage. we've problem where people are being denied coverage for preexisting conditions. we have a problem with people lose jobs or change jobs, they

don't have anymore insurance. it really needs to be fixed. >> congressman campbell, the president says his door is open, he's willing to sit down and talk with anybody who comes in and who has ideas on ways to improve the plan as it sits right now. are you going to take him up on that offer so we can have bipartisan health care reform? >> well, we've been trying to take him up on that offer, but he talks about it, but doesn't actually do it. when he gave what was supposed to be a speech but was basically a lecture on wednesday night, all he had to do was back away from the government option. that is the great divide here. that is the thing that we as republicans just cannot stomach is moving toward government-run health care. if he pulled that off the table, there is lots of things to talk about. we have a number of other republican plans, we were holding them up, waving pieces of paper, waving our ideas and our plans at the speech wednesday night. but the president basically said, look, it's my way or nothing. he wants people to think that

there is only his reform or the status quo. there are other options. the president doesn't seem to want to listen to them. >> air force one back from minnesota. you can see the door is open and president obama will soon walk down those steps with the red carpet right there. congressman engle, we keep hearing about this deadline, october 15, for reconciliation. this is a congressional maneuver that would allow congress to pass a health care bill with just a simple majority. is that going to happen at a time when our country is so sort of divided on this issue and what happens if that is the case and we get a health care bill based on reconciliation and not one that has broad support? >> you know, that would be involved with the senate. in the house, we need a majority to pass any bill. and we're working very, very hard to get that consensus. i would disagree with my colleague. i think president obama's speech the other night was magnificent.

i think the door is open. if republicans want to participate, i don't think a public option means a government takeover of health care. it's just an option, public option. and when you talk about government takeover of health care, several years ago with a republican majority and republican president, we have medicare part d with a huge doughnut hole which is not very good. that was a government expansion. so i think we need to be careful. americans are scared. americans want to make sure that their health care will be with them. that's all we really want to do. i think that if john boehner with like to speak to president obama, i think that the president is not going to say no. i think we should put our heads together and try to come up with a plan that the american people want. but i support a strong public option because i think that is the only way to force the insurance companies to keep their premiums down. if the public option and it's only an option and less than 10% of the people would choose that

option, based on projection, to keep prices down, if they kept prices down, the insurance companies would be forced to do the same thing. >> congressman campbell, as we look at the president departing air force one, he has said that he's not going to waste his time with those who have sort of made a political calculation that any kind of health care reform bill is bad. you know that there are a lot of people out there looking at the republican party and looking at people in washington who agree with your point of view here and saying they're going to throw up their arms no matter what the proposal is. it doesn't matter that republicans don't want to see president obama be able to say that he pushed through what was his biggest, you know, at least domestic agenda here. is that the case? what do you say to those cynics out there who say the republicans would say no, no matter what? >> it's absolutely not true. we want health care reform.

we want it as much as the president does. but what we want is very different than what the president wants. when you talk about this government option, the president always says and those in support of it always say, well, we need another choice. this is about additional choice. our plan that we have include eliminating -- enabling people to buy health insurance across state lines. instead of adding one more choice for people that, would add 1,000 more choices. you would have 1300 plans to choose from. but yet we mention it over and over again, let's not do the government option. let's try this. you never hear from the president wants to make any compromise on this. so we all want reform, but we would rather have no reform than bad reform that's going to lead to us a government-run system and destroy the quality, the best quality of health care in the world, which is what we have in the united states. >> we have to leave it there, unfortunately. gentlemen, good discussion and i appreciate you both coming on and talking about this.

john campbell, republican of california, elliott engle, democrat of new york. enjoy the rest of your weekend and thank you so much. >> thank you. >> new fallout from the scandal surrounding acorn, the u.s. census bureau is reporting it's cutting all ties with the community organizing group and two more acorn employees have now lost their jobs. fox caroline shively has the latest out of washington. >> the census bureau apparently had enough from acorn. take a look at the letter they released last night severing their ties with the controversial community organization. quote, it is clear that acorn's affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public and indeed has become a distraction from our mission and become a dis-- negatively impacting 2010 census efforts. republicans worry the group would tamper with the census count next year, especially after this hidden camera video came to light of a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute at acorn's baltimore office. on the tape, you can hear an

acorn employee held the alleged hook tore lie to the irs and say her job was a performance artist. a woman with acorn also gave them guidance on how to claim underage girls from el salvador as dependents, while the children were working as prostitutes. the staffer is heard saying, with the girls, you tell them to be careful. train them to keep their mouth shut. acorn says it fired the two employees on the tape, but some are calling for the inspector general at hud to investigate. >> these people have a pattern and practice of defrauding the taxpayers, understand, this was the acorn, low income housing office. they're helping these people get housing that we taxpayers pay for to run a brothel. that's what they were getting. >> up until now, the census bureau defended acorn over an a voter registration effort when some of their employees submitted false voter forms. >> caroline shively reporting from washington. >> special task force set up in

virginia to find the killer or killers of two virginia tech students. they were found shot to death at a park popular with students and hikers on august 27. investigators say they're doing all they can to try to solve this crime. n there is unsolved homicides across the united states all over the place. we do not want this to be one. and as long as i am in office and the men and women working here, we're committed ourselves to solve this at all possible. >> investigators from several local, state and federal agencies make up the special task force. they'll be fielding calls and following up on all leads. danger at disney, cops say an orange county florida deputy is under investigation. he's accused of giving his taser gun to a walt disney world employee who then shock add co-worker with it. the tasered man is okay, but paramedic high school to be called to the scene.

deputies was working off-duty at one of the security offices at the time. >> a man impersonate ago cop busted by dash cam in iowa. take a look at this. you see him driving 59-year-old william reese, apparently taking it for a joy ride. he's a jailer. not a county sheriff. then you see him pulling over a driver, unfortunately, that driver was a real sheriff's deputy. cops say reese was charged with impersonating an officer. a very dangerous driving conditions across parts of the south this saturday. the region hit by downpour after downpour. here is the scene in texas. just one of several states that were hit with numerous flood watches and warnings this afternoon. domenica davis keeping track of it all. she's live at the fox weather center. any letup there? >> absolutely not. unfortunately, we have a low pressure center parked over this area. that means these rain bands are going to keep rotating in not

only today but through sunday. the heaviest rain right now is around the oklahoma city area. it's really central oklahoma and off to the east and then through texas. it really combines much of the gulf states with this low pressure system. look at the flash flood watches and warnings that extend from texas. they go up into oklahoma city where you have the red. that's where we're looking at our flash flood warnings that are in effect. low pressure system parked over the southern part of texas. that is going to keep the rain rotating in. you can see the rain extends all the way over to parts of florida it is going to be a washout for the weekend down to the south. six to 12-inches of rain. >> that's a lot of rain. >> domenica davis, thanks very much. >> we've seen a lot of that this summer. >> yeah. >> breaking developments in the disappearance of the yale grad student annie lee. our local fox station is reporting her body has been found. a news conference expected just minutes from now.

we will bring it to you live.

a look at the top stories we're watching today. vice president joe biden is attend ago memorial service for two firefighters who died in the

wild fire near los angeles. thousands turned out to pay tribute to the two men. also, discovery astronauts reuniting with their families today. the shuttle landed at edwards air force base last night. bad weather kept discovery from settling down in its home port of florida. and leaders in china condemning president obama's decision to impose tariffs on chinese tires. it is a move that unions here in the u.s. applaud, but the chinese say it's a violation of global trade guideline. >> bad news for dairy farmers and cows, i guess. for years we have been taught milk does a body good. if you feel sick after down ago glass of milk, you're not alone. scientists say the majority of adults cannot digest dairy products. what's a milk lover to do? bill keller with our affiliate has the story. >> there is nothing quite as delicious as a cold glass of milk, but for those like aaron, it is a treat she has learned to

do without. >> at a young age, i could consume any dairy product and never had any problem. >> in college she discovered she was lactose intolerant. many adults no longer digest dairy products. for many, the sugar begins to ferment in the colon, causing side effects. >> my symptoms were digestive related. bloating, cramping. >> world wide, only about 40% of adults actually retain the ability to digest milk. some races like asians and native americans are entirely lactose intolerant. researchers say in most people between the ages of two and five, the body stops producing the enzyme needed to break down the lactose but americans and those with european ancestry are the exception. >> there are people that take dairy products their entire life cycle and have no problems at all. the big upside is it's nutrient

rich. >> scientist says we can thank a genetic mutation that allows us to to be milk drinkers well into adulthood. drinking well is as american as apple pie. some say lactose intolerance shouldn't be called a disease because it is the milk drinkers who are the exception, not the norm. researchers have come up with a term called lactose persistence. this professor who admittedly grew up on a dairy farm says in many case, enjoying milk in the later years may come down to portion control. >> the things you worry about are big doses, that people can tolerate a small amount, they can tolerate different forms. >> for others, cow's milk has been replaced by a substitute. >> i think it's comparable to what i would drink, which is skim milk. >> there you go. that was kmsp bill keller reporting. this is just too cute for words.

you have to look at this. the baby panda at the san diego zoo getting a checkup. everything seems to be a okay. workers there say he has webbing on his feet like his dad. he's put on a much needed pound over the last week, which is good news. >> he's going to keep putting those pounds on. they get really big, don't they? >> they do. his eyes are shut. >> look how cute. very nice. all right. when we come back, more serious stories. researchers racing against time. they are trying and working on that h1n1 vaccine. they want to get it out and distributed asap. the trials are underway. could we have a winner? >> plus we're waiting on the news conference out of connecticut. we do have live pictures. new developments in the case of that missing yale grad student. you're looking at livid i don't right now there are reports her body has been found. stay with us. we'll have more information

welcome back to of course news alert. 5:30 in the afternoon in new haven, connecticut. on the right-hand side of your screen, the site of a press conference should get underway any minute now. we are expecting police to update us on the status of their investigation into the whereabouts of the young woman on the left, annie lee, a yale university doctoral student last seen walking into a campus laboratory building on tuesday. she was never seen leaving that building. in spite of the fact there are

some 75 surveillance cameras in the area. we are getting reports from our fox affiliate in hartford, fox 61, that police are set to announce that they have found annie lee's body. we have not been able to independently confirm that yet here at fox news channel. this young woman was set to be married tomorrow on new york's long island. her wedding has been called off by her family, obviously distraught over these developments. the press conference set to get underway and when it does, we'll take you back live to the campus of the yale university. >> that breaking news hit at the top of the hour and police in connecticut are expected to hold that news conference and we'll bring it to you live. annie lee has been missing since tuesday. she was supposed to get married tomorrow, but there are reports now that her body has been found. executive editor of campus safety magazine robin hattersly is joining us live to tell us how we can protect our kids. robin, so many parents across the country drop their kids off at colleges all across the

nation this week, last week. i know they're worried sick at this hour as we're learning that a body has been found at the yale campus. what information can you tell them how to protect their kids? >> i think first and foremost is not to panic. there have been a lot of advances advances with campus security and safety in the last ten years since columbine and virginia tech, improved access control, closed circuit television, a lot more training of law enforcement, a lot greater awareness on campuses. i think that should help them feel better about sending their children to school away from home. as far as keeping children safe, a lot of it comes down to common sense, be aware of your surroundings. particularly in the -- avoid dark places. walk where there is light. walk with other people.

know where you're going, take off the i pods and just be fully alert when you're walking around. that's the first thing. another thing, i'm not sure what the specifics are as far as this particular case is concerned, but sexual assaults and a lot of times people say assaults are done by strangers. people are worried about stranger danger, and that's obviously something that people need to be concerned about. but they also need to be aware that a lot of times maybe they're off to college for the first time and they party with their friends and they really need to watch their alcohol and drug intake. a lot of times we see victims and attackers become much more susceptible to crime and committing crimes when they have had alcohol or drugs.

that really impair theirs ability to make good decisions and to protect themselves. >> what's ironic is annie lee wrote an article last morgan stanleyer and says, quote, overall affect on yale campuses increased by 59%, totaling to 162 reported events in 2007. she goes on to say, as it stand, yale experiences more theft per student than any of these metropolitan ivy league institutions. even though in this case we're not really sure what happened, it doesn't appear to be theft, although one of our reporters did say the motive in this case might have been theft. who is at risk here on these college campuses? is it women like annie lee? the freshmen students? who is mostly at risk? >> generally freshmen women and sophomore women are generally more prone to sexual assaults. as far as theft, any of that, that's generally considered a crime of opportunity. if you leave your car unlocked

or if you leave stuff out on your car seat, then that's telling the would be thieves to steal your stuff. that could happen to anybody. i think it's also really important to know that just because there have been more reported crimes, it doesn't necessarily mean that the campus is doing a bad job of taking care of the problem and paying attention to the problem. in fact, a campus that has greater number of reports may be doing a better job because they're more aware and transparent in reporting. i think that's really important for people to know. just because a campus has an increase in crimes or reported crimes, i should say, doesn't necessarily mean it's -- >> doesn't mean the college isn't doing a good job. >> right. and it may mean people feel safer to report them. maybe the police or the security departments have done a better

job of making the students aware that they need to report the incidents. i think that's something that's very important. >> we're looking at the press conference on the right side of your screen. it looks like they're about to start. we might have to interrupt you. thanks for your help. we appreciate it for that information. >> thank you. >> we're wait ago press conference at yale university in new haven, connecticut. you can see all of the microphones there, the media is there ready to report this. we're being told that a body was found at the university. of course, annie lee went missing on tuesday. we're not sure if that body found is connected to this. let's take a listen. >> secretary of yale university. as you know, we have had a very difficult week trying to sort out the mystery of the disappearance of annie lee, a third year student in pharmacology. i will have to say that we have been so impressed by the collective efforts of the law enforcement officials who have bound together to pursue this in the most aggressive, thorough

and conscientious way. i have asked representatives from each of the law enforcement agencies who have been working so hard this week to make a few remarks and i will call upon them in turn. first to make a couple of other remarks. i've been in conversation with annie lee's family. as you can imagine, we reinforce how important it was for us to do everything the university can to find out what had happened to annie, find out where she is, to find out what happened in these last few years. we also reinforced we at the university wanted to do everything we could to help this family out at this incredibly difficult, burdensome time. all of us, her parents can only imagine what they're doing through. they have asked us to appeal to you to respect their privacy at this very, very difficult time. i also want to point out, which will become very clear in hearing from the authorities who

will address you in a couple minutes. as they have told me, the investigation has been a very -- is at a very difficult stage. you will have many questions of the kind i'm sure that i have had and i have been asking and it's just not right now for them to speculate or to answer many of our lay person's questions as they put their full force and attention to really finding out what happened here in solving this mystery. let me call first on kim merkel, the special agent in charge for the f.b.i. in connecticut. >> good afternoon, i want to assure you that law enforcement throughout the state of connecticut is very engaged in this investigation. mertz. >> first name was kim? >> yes. >> we have, as has been reported, over 100 law enforcement officials working this investigation. it is very much a collaborative

effort between yale police department, new haven police department, and we've got great support from the connecticut state police. f.b.i. resources have been supporting this case as well. we are not in a position today to conclude whether this is a missing person's case or whether criminality is involved and i need to stress that. we have conducted numerous interviews and i can assure you no lead is going uncovered. again, as vice president stated, our goal is to find annie lee and determine what happened to her. i'll turn it over to chief jim perotti with the yale p.d. >> i'm the chief of police at yale university. let me start by thanking my colleagues. >> perrotti. first let me thank all my colleagues from the other law enforcement agencies that are

here today. the state police, f.b.i. we are very fortunate that we have a tremendous relationship with other law enforcement agencies and that they have joined forces with us to investigate this case. one of the things that yale takes very seriously is security on campus. we are fortunate that we have many physical security items in place to help us with this investigation, to include over 70 cameras in the area of the homicide building, card access control and the like. i'd like to end by saying, to remind everyone that there is a $10,000 reward that has been offered by the university and to have the tip line put out there

again, and i will give you the tip line right now. 1-877-503-1950. thank you. >> assistant chief. >> i'm assistant chief peter reichard. >> new haven police was asked to assist yale and the f.b.i. for resources in the initial stages of this incident and we have been doing so and we're dedicated to all the resources that we have. >> good afternoon, i'm lieutenant william baldwin. commanding officer of the western district major crimes squad for the connecticut state police. i want to say that the role of our agency has been to support the yale police department and

new haven police department as well as the f.b.i. with numerous resources that the state of connecticut has to offer to include our canine unit, which consisted of blood hounds, as well as our labs and numerous detectives from throughout the state. our role is to support the various agencies in this missing person's investigation. >> baldwin. william. >> that was lieutenant? >> yes, ma'am. >> i think now i know you have a lot of questions, many are not going to be able to be answered, obviously as law enforcement has said. we don't know where she is. we don't -- you have to understand we don't know where she is. we don't they what happened to her. we don't know if a crime was committed or not. that's why the investigation is continuing and you probably have a lot of questions and maybe a

few can be answered, but there is not going to be any speculation. >> we heard a report that a body was found and that's really alarmed people on campus. can you categorically say about that? >> i will categorically say a body has not been found. >> has bloody clothing been removed? >> all i will say is that an item that could potentially be evidence has been seized. none have yet been associated with annie lee. until something is associated with annie lee, we can't -- i'm not going to speculate. >> can you tell us a little more? any kind of information that might give the campus and the surrounding community some idea that -- why can't you give us any information at all? what is the secrecy? >> there is not any secret. we're focused on conducting the

investigation, conducting interviews, reviewing the video coverage. we don't have anything to convey yet. we always appreciate the public's support. if they have any information to provide. >> can you tell us if you don't want to disclose specifics, as best you can, about where has this evidence been found and what is being done with the evidence to determine whether it has any direct relation to this case? >> i'm not going to get into the specifics. the item seized are being examined to determine if there is any association to annie lee. >> are they being examined at the connecticut state police lab? is that where they are? >> at various places. >> is it clothing? >> i'm not going to confirm what has been seized. >> i'm not going to confirm what was seized. >> where are the family members? >> has anyone sort of been --

anyone of interest? >> we have not identified anyone of interest. we have conducted numerous interest views, as i've said. >> do you know who was picked up for questioning in front of the building and determine -- >> we have interviewed many, many people. >> what about the family? where is the family? >> i would not -- i do not know and i would not disclose that to you if i did. this is a very difficult time for them. i know everyone has tried to do their job. if i could echo vice president's request to please respect their privacy. i'm sure you can imagine the stress that they're under and how difficult of a time it is for them. >> has anyone been ruled out? her fiance been ruled out? >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> can you say what is known about her last known whereabouts? >> at the building here.

>> please tell us where she was last found and what was left behind? >> the last video clip we have her entering the building. >> speaking of the video, could you confirm for us is there any video that confirms or validates she's exiting the building, of the 75 cameras? >> we are still undergoing the review. we have not yet confirmed an exit. >> you haven't gotten to the stage of analysis of the 75 cameras frame by frame? >> we have conducted the review. we are actually using the expert in state to do the video enhancement. >> can you state categorically that it's defensive she may or may not have left the building. >> i do not know whether it's definitive she has left the building at this point. >> was she seen leaving the laboratory building? when is the last time she was seen? >> the last time we saw her on

the video was entering the building. >> were there eyewitnesses inside who place her in a room or a corridor or somewhere inside the building? >> yes, we talked to numerous people and i'm not going to get into those details. >> i'm not going to provide a time line. we are looking at the time line, rest assured. >> is there any indication she may have had a reason not to get married or to run away? >> in talking to the family, there is no reason to believe that whatsoever. and i believe that those who have talked with her friends have no reason to support that conclusion. >> who was she supposed to see at the building? what was she supposed to be doing? >> she is a third year graduate student in pharmacology and in terms of doing her own scientific experiments, she regularly would go from the medical school down to the building where she would do her

experiments. they're analyzing, by the authorities. >> can you talk about the report of a fire drill in that building and whether that was a diversion or whether that happened? >> from the reports that i have gotten, it was a kind of fire alarm that is not the old-fashioned kind you might have thought about, but someone might have pulled. one of the questions i had about this. it was a kind that would be automatically triggered, in this case, the underlying rationale was that there was steam that came out of a piece of equipment and steam set it off. i think much in the same way we might have one of the alarms go off in our house if you're boiling something on the kitchen oven. >> there were reports that her body was found. we just learned from law enforcement at the scene there on the campus of yale university that, in fact, a body has not

been found. their investigation continues now into what happened to this third year doctoral student from yale university who was set to be married tomorrow. david lee miller has been following this story all along. we expected to hear news that was much worse, although we're still left with this mystery of what happened to this young woman and we did learn from this press conference that some evidence has been seized. right? >> indeed we did. i think most importantly, most significantly, we heard the f.b.i. say they categorically, a body has not been found. they say they did find some form of evidence in that building, they would not elaborate. there are unconfirmed reports that there may be reports -- or bloody clothing that was found in the building. again, we have not been able to independently verify that. this is a story that is very much in flux, rick. the big question right now is, if annie lee is still in that building, where is she? why isn't she on the videotape that investigators have spent

the last several days reviewing over and over. rick? >> david lee miller, they have not yet been able to confirm her exit from that building on campus. they also say they have no reason to believe that she might have gotten cold feet ahead of her wedding, which was set for tomorrow. the investigation continues. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it. >> tens of thousands turning out at the nation's capitol today protesting what they call big government. were their calls heard and now what do they plan to do? hs@ad hp

tea party express taking its last stop today. tens of thousands people rallying at the nation's capitol broadcasting their message loud and clear today.

was that message heard and what lies ahead for this cause? joining us now is the chief strait jees of tea party express. thanks for being with us? >> my pleasure. >> last tea party, are these tea parties working, shall? >> they've been great. we started off in california. we did 16 states, 34 stops and each rally, the momentum kept building. the enthusiasm was greater and so i knew that today was going to be the culmination of this two-week bus trip and we would have a huge crowd of people that want to take their country back. i think a lot of americans would just as soon see the politicians take care of things, but they're tired of throwing their shoe at their tv set or radio and yelling at home and decided to get off the easy chair and get out and do something to take their country back of the that's what we've seen. at all of our rally, we asked how many people are new to politics? i think a majority of people in each of our rallies raised their head and said this is the first

time they've been involved. i think we have a burgeoning political movement that wants change and i think we'll see change in 2010. >> why do you say it's working, because it looks like congress is still going to be voting on this health care plan. >> they are, but i think that they will be voting after a peril if they continue the direction of more taxes, higher taxes, that's not the direction the people want. i think when the president was elected, he ran the campaign more moderately, talked about bringing people together, but since he's been elected president, everything has been on the left. it's been a hard liberal agenda, unwilling to compromise or reach out. i don't think that's what the american people wanted. i think they're rising up. i think we're seeing the flynning of a big movement and we'll see change in 2010. >> you said dozens of tea parties all over. some are calling you an extremely vocal minority. what's your response to that?

>> if you just look at what these rallyies have been on the outskirts of chicago, we had 10,000 people showed up. that's at the heart of obama country. so this is truly a grassroots movement. i know they like to dismiss it as astro turf. but as one of the founders of tea party patriots says, astro turf doesn't grow and this movement is growing every single day. >> can't believe it's been six months since that first tea party. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> quick break. when we come back. talk about adding insult to injury, first a couple gets taken to the cleaners by bernie madoff. then they have to unload their $12 million beach house just to make ends meet. but now they can't make a sale despite plenty of able buyers. not because of the bad economy, but apparently because the bank and a banker living it up in their former home. how could this happen and could something like this happen to you? we'll be right back.